Broken followed along a similar theme tonight, as Father Michael counselled a young police officer being pressured by colleagues to corroborate their lies about the previously-mentioned shooting.

However, it was the priest's impassioned sermon about the Catholic Church and its attitudes towards women in the clergy that most resonated with viewers during the third episode.

"I think I understand why our church is so upset against women priests," Father Michael told his sparse parish. "I think it's the old men who run the church don't want to see menstrual blood on the alter. Fear of. Ignorance of. Contempt of the bodies of women.

"'Ah, it's alright', you might say, 'these old men will soon be dead'. But they've taught younger men. And those younger men will, in turn, teach younger men. And so it will continue, this 'fear of'. Ignorance of. Contempt for the bodies of women.

If he keeps up these powerful sermons, Father Michael may have Britain's biggest congregation by the time Broken ends its first series.

However, Father Michael risks violating his own clergy vows next week when he tries to make contact with the parishioner (Deadwood and Ray Donovan's Paula Malcomson) who he talked down from suicide earlier in the series.